0659- on the road to the CDC, a place I've dreamed of going since I was a kid
1041- Meeting with Andres to discuss a rabies phylogeography project
1947- back in Alabama eating tacos (it's snowing here...)
2020- watching TV and eating a banana split
Random fact- Ondine's Curse is a syndrome that causes respiratory arrests during sleep. While usually identified shortly after birth (and fatal if untreated) it can be caused by traumatic brain or spinal injuries. It got it's name from a myth in which one character is cursed (if you fall asleep you forget to breath) by the other.
Lunch- crunchy tacos at Chiplote
Dinner- tacos my madre made
Back when I was in middle school I got a book called Mad Dogs at Half Price Books starting a fascination with rabies (and other infectious diseases). A couple years ago I took a spatial epidemiology class which required a class project for which I got some Texas fox rabies sequence data, do a BEAST analysis, then map the results. In the process I made contact with a rabies researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and after exchanging e-mails and phone calls for the last couple of years we arranged to meet today and discuss a project we could collaborate on. I won't go into details yet but its a really neat phylogeographic study that will require knowledge of wildlife ecology the findings of which will have management implications. I can't wait to get my paperwork processed and get moving on it.
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